Trump signs repeal of Obama-era coal mining rule

President Donald Trump has signed his second repeal of Obama-era regulation, this time concerning coal mining.

The resolution undoing the US Interior Department’s Office of Surface Mining’s Stream Protection Rule, a regulation finalized in December to guard waterways from coal mining waste, was authorized by the Congressional Review Act, a 1996 law seldom used until recently, which allows Congress to end administrative restrictions placed by executive agencies.

The Thursday signing marks the second administrative rule repeal this week, as on Tuesday, Trump repealed a regulation requiring extraction companies to report payments to foreign governments over production activities.